Episode 7: We Moved Across the Country During the Pandemic. Here’s How (and Why) Pt. 6

The Suburban Abyss

Given how blazing hot the Boise real estate market was – even in the middle of a raging pandemic – we had expected the house to sell fast, and “fast” in the Boise market had come to mean as little as one day, and often following a bidding war. Our expectations were heightened even more following 13 showings in the first nine hours our house was on the market. But when we heard from our realtor, it was not with news of any mind-blowing offers – or any offers at all. Instead, she shared the initial feedback she was hearing from buyers’ agents, and it wasn’t promising. For as much as the house had been gussied up with bad art and fake fruit and staged to look more spacious than it really was, prospective buyers were seeing right through the smoke and mirrors.